ONE of the biggest beefs coaches have had in the past with televised games is the way matches are refereed differently to those not subject to the big screen calls.

The advent of technology was supposed to be beneficial, and has meant that the video refs can spot indiscretions that the naked eye has missed or check out if dummy runners had obstructed the defence.

That extra pair of eyes, you would imagine, should be an asset.

But now we have a new trend developing of the zoom and slow-mo actually, in my book, distorting the end result. And the players will no doubt catch on to that with the way they execute certain plays in future.

The argument is over what constitutes downward pressure over the try line?

I refer to Mitch Achurch’s try on Friday, not given by the man on the spot, but awarded by the video ref.

In this case I have got to argue with Bucks Fizz. It is not true that the camera never lies.

If you run that play at normal speed surely the Leeds man has no control on the ball and it simply comes loose on the line.

Freeze frame it and you have an image of a bit of the ball on a fleck of the whitewash being touched by one of Achurch’s digits.

Never in a million years would that try have been allowed pre-television.

Soon we will be taking a leaf out of American Football and not bother with the actual grounding of the ball at all as long as the player crosses the line.

Since when did players start thinking it is ok to let go of the ball and score with your little finger?

We have replays and super zooms – and all of those were broadcast in the stadium on Friday to the cheers of the South Stand.

The test for me should be that if you play it in real time and it does not look like a try, then it is not a try, simple as that.

It must have been contagious because Jordan Turner had a crack later in the game when he let go of the ball when reaching out over the line.

In that instance he would have been as well tucking the ball up in the old fashioned way because he was heading downwards over the line anyway.

There was one given at Huddersfield as well on the Thursday night.

Look at them a million times and slow them down and convince yourself they are tries...but they are not.

Let us nip this one in the bud now, and then send out a clear directive to all refs and players and spell out if a player has no control, then it is no try.